- Title: NETHERLANDS: SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ARRIVES ON VISIT.
- Date: 11th March 1999
- Summary: VALKENBURG MILITARY AIRPORT NEAR THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (MARCH 11, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: WIDE OF THE VALKENBURG AIRPORT, PLANE TAXIING 0.05 2. SV.PAN: SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA GETTING OFF THE PLANE/ GREETED BY QUEEN BEATRIX 0.26 3. GV: MEDIUM OF THE BAND 0.30 4. SV/PAN: MANDELA AND QUEEN BEATRIX REVIEWING THE GUARD OF HONOUR 0.46 AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS (MARCH 11, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. GV: WIDE OF THE CITY 0.50 6. CU: SOUTH AFRICAN AND NETHERLAND FLAGS 0.54 7. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) AMERICAN GIRL ANYSIA TAYLOR:"What we could not do in 200 years he accomplished in the last ten years and, the case of black oppression and freedom, he represents a whole bunch to me especially as a black woman... struggling so. And all through the whole world because when we are higher, the whole world is higher." 1.13 8. LV: MANDELA AND HIS WIFE WALKING TOWARDS THE MONUMENT 1.18 9. MV: CLOSE OF MANDELA AND HIS WIFE, GRACA 1.30 10. SV: SOLDIERS 1.34 11. SV/PAN: MANDELA AND WIFE WALKING UP TO THE WREATH 1.52 12. SV: MANDELA STANDING TO ATTENTION BY THE MONUMENT/ MOVE AWAY 2.11 13. GV/CU: CROWDS CHEERING/ BANNER SAYING " OCALAN IS OUR MANDELA"/ (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROCHELLE DRANDAW, SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN He gave us freedom as South Africans and he is an international symbol of hope and peace, these are the things he gave me most, that's why I am here and I have him on my heart." 2.30 14. SV/GV: MANDELA WALKS AWAY, WAVES HIS HAND TO THE CROWD (2 SHOTS) 2.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
- Country: Netherlands
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- Story Text: South African President Nelson Mandela has arrived in
Amsterdam for what is likely to be his last visit to the
Netherlands, which played a role both in building and
dismantling apartheid.
Mandela's European tour, which began in the
Netherlands on Thursday (March 11) and is expected to take him
to other Nordic nations, is to thank those who stood up
against apartheid during the long struggle.
Afrikaner descendants of South Africa's 17th century Dutch
colonists introduced its infamous racial segregation policies
in 1948, but the Netherlands later became one of the white
regime's fiercest opponents.
Queen Beatrix visited South Africa in 1996, the first
state vist by a Dutch monarch to South Africa in over 30
years.Mandela's return visit, his first as president, is
billed as a celebration of common values.
The Netherlands spearheaded the lobby for European
Community sanctions against the Pretoria regime, stepping up
its efforts in the wake of the 1976 Soweto killings.
In the 1980s, anti-racist guerrilla groups torched Shell
petrol stations in anger at the Anglo-Dutch group's refusal to
pull out of South Africa.
Similar attacks on the outlets of wholesaler SHV Makro
forced the group to spin off its South African operations.
The two nations are currently linked by a sense of
enlightened neutrality.Mandela, an ally of Muammar Gaddafi,
appears to have made progress in persuading the Libyan leader
to hand over the Libyans suspected of the Lockerbie bombing.
The trial, if it goes ahead, would take place on Dutch soil.
Mandela's tour is aimed at cementing bilateral ties and
economic links with EU states, but politics and economics will
take a back seat as the Dutch fete Mandela.
"It's more or less an official bye-bye," a Dutch official
said.Mandela will stand down after elections on June 2.
On Thursday (March 11) morning, Mandela arrived at the
Valkenburg airport and laid wreaths at National Monument in
Amsterdam.
Later during the day he will meet Queen Beatrix and be
presented with a gold medal by Amsterdam's mayor before
touring the capital's canals.
On Friday (March 12), Mandela is to address Dutch
deputies, meet Prime Minister Wim Kok and receive an honorary
doctorate from Leiden University.
Next week he will visit Denmark, Finland, Norway and
Sweden.
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